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Optoelectronics covers the design, manufacture, and characterization of hardware devices that convert electrical signals into photon signals and vice-versa. The interaction between light and matter lies at the heart of optoelectronics, and progress in this area impacts all fields of application, including light sources, detectors, and optical communication systems. A brief review of the performance and development of up-to-date light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors applicable in information technology is presented. After a short introduction into the physics and technology of semiconductor optoelectronic devices, their potential importance for future optoelectronics and photonics applications are discussed. Examples, where III–V compound semiconductors are used in LEDs, resonant cavity enhanced and avalanche photodetector structures, as well as new materials and structures for efficient visible light emitting diodes based on organic semiconductors are discussed. Key problems that are still to be addressed with regard to the need for interdisciplinary integration consistent with More than Moore domain in ENIAC strategy research agenda are also identified.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Kouchi Zhang for stimulating and continuous encouragement of this work. This chapter is a review of the design and development of selected optoelectronics devices, and we are indebted to all of the researchers who have been contributing to this field. Only a few of these researchers are cited here, so we also thank those whose work has not been referenced. The authors are grateful to colleagues who have worked with them in this research since the early 1990s at the Microelectronics Department of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in close collaboration with Slovak Academy of Science in Bratislava, University of Leipzig in Germany and City University of Hong Kong-COSDAF. The assistance of J. Breza and PhD students L. Peternai, J. Waclawek, and D. Hasko is greatly appreciated also.

This work was done in Center of Excellence CENAMOST (Slovak Research and Development Agency Contract. No. VVCE-0049–07) where support of European Commission projects, CP 93, No. 12 283, “DEMACOMINT” and IST-2001–32793-VGF GaP-LEDs as well as projects of the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contracts APVV-20–055405 and APVV-0290–06 are gratefully acknowledged.

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Kováčč, J., Uherek, F., Donoval, D., Kováčč, J., Šatka, A. (2009). Optoelectronics. In: Zhang, G., Roosmalen, A. (eds) More than Moore. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75593-9_7

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